Overview
Job Posting End Date: July 07
We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Risk Analyst to join our First Line Risk team and play a key role in embedding effective risk management across the business.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate key first line risk management activities across the business, helping ensure risks are understood, controlled and managed effectively.
- Work closely with operational teams, project stakeholders and risk colleagues to provide guidance, oversight and challenge, while strengthening risk awareness and ownership across Unum.
- Lead and facilitating Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs), ensuring risks, controls and actions remain current and effective.
- Support business projects and change initiatives by helping the business identify potential risks and controls early in the process.
- Act as a trusted risk partner to operational teams, translating risk concepts into clear, practical actions for non-risk stakeholders.
- Oversee the investigation and resolution of operational risk events and incidents, including root cause analysis and lessons learned activity.
- Produce meaningful risk reporting, dashboards and management information for senior leaders and governance forums.
- Build strong relationships across the business to drive accountability, challenge thinking and embed a positive risk culture.
- Support operational resilience, business continuity and risk improvement initiatives when required.
- Work closely with Second Line Risk teams to ensure alignment with regulatory expectations and risk frameworks.
Requirements/Qualifications
- Proven experience within operational risk, controls or governance roles, ideally within financial services or a regulated environment.
- Strong hands-on experience leading or facilitating RCSA (Risk & Control Self-Assessment) activities.
- Experience identifying, assessing and articulating risk impacts to a broad range of stakeholders, including those with limited risk knowledge.
- The ability to provide practical, commercial risk advice while maintaining appropriate challenge and oversight.
- Experience supporting projects or business change initiatives from a risk perspective.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret risk data, identify themes and present insights clearly.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence at multiple levels of the organisation.
- Experience of incident management, risk event reviews and root cause analysis.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
Why join us
At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life. We actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions. If you meet the essential criteria and opt in to the Disability Confident Scheme, you will be offered an interview. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to careers@unum.co.uk. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
About Unum
Company: Unum UK. Join our talent community to receive notifications about jobs relevant to your interest. At Unum Group, we’re a Fortune 500 company and leading international provider of workplace benefits and services, helping workers and their families thrive for more than 175 years. Through our Unum and Colonial Life brands, our company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision insurance; leave and absence management support; and behavioral health services. Our 10,000+ employees work across operations in the US, UK and Poland, as well as our dedicated Technology Centre in Ireland. Unum Group is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for any applicant with a disability. If you are disabled and need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or hiring process, please contact us by submitting a request here.
